Please Stop Saying Open Source AI Makes No Money

Takes claiming open-source AI and software are pointless because we live in a for-profit capitalist society make NO SENSE

- Meta open-sourcing Llama is a strategic masterstroke and serves its business interests. The community

Having covered Yale in 2015, when the social justice-coded position was that a polite email about Halloween costumes ruined the safe space students needed to learn, it's staggering to see the scenes like this from left-activists (not sure if they are students or not), and no

Scenes from the $*bst@ck Writers Meetup hosted by FBT and Kimi Katiti (kimikatiti.com) last Friday night in Los Angeles.

Lots of fascinating folks! Screenwriters, poets, etc.

If you missed this one, stayed tuned! We're gonna do it again soon...

Did you know that civil rights employment law considers not only “disparate treatment” but also “disparate impact”?

It's impossible to understand why corporate America embraced DEI without understanding disparate impact.

The concept of disparate impact in Title VII enforcement

She's articulating a different standard of 'fairness'—the fairness of everyone getting to play. Her message to young female athletes:

You can 'learn to lose gracefully' because you were fortunate (even privileged) enough to have experienced a childhood in which your gender

Where I depart from many of my right-wing friends: I don’t care if a boy likes pink or wears dresses or is into princess fantasies or plays with dolls. There’s no right way to be a boy.

Where I depart from many of my left-wing friends: I don’t believe that a boy who likes pink

'After they beat Azat Azatyan so bad blood came out of his ears; after they sent electric shocks up his genitals; after they wacked him with pipes and truncheons, the Russians began to interrogate him about his faith. 'When did you become a Baptist?''
Indispensable reporting

It turns out for pedophiles in Hollywood, 'It's A Small World After All.'

The KlangPhonics!

Not AI.

One of the best arguments for open source foundation models.

Tired: Zuck is the bad guy
Wired: Zuck is the good guy

😢💔

On the new Title IX rule that dropped at 5am this morning:

There’s a reason this new rule was delayed again and again: the Biden administration knew that it was stretching the law beyond its breaking point. At a time when American higher education is in crisis, with a drastic

I remember discussions with Bohr which went through many hours till very late at night and ended almost in despair; and when at the end of the discussion I went alone for a walk in the neighbouring park I repeated to myself again and again the question: Can nature possibly be so

Concentric circles appear to be entangled.

It’s just too on the nose that all the libs who have been screaming hysterically about incipient fascism for the past decade have cheered on the merging of corporations and the federal government for ideological and economic purposes in the name of ‘safety’ and ‘democracy.’

😂😂😂

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Here’s what an Oxford Ph.D. (Communication) and former Policy Strategist for child Safety at Google thinks about what Hamas did to dozens of Israeli women and girls.

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'There are progressive voices saying that certain kinds of speech should not be permitted because it offends against this or that vulnerable group.

There seems to be a kind of growing orthodoxy, particularly amongst young people, that censorship in those circumstances is a good